DIXON, Nathan Fellows, (son of Nathan Fellows Dixon [1812-1881] and grandson of Nathan
Fellows Dixon [1777-1842]),
a Representative and a Senator from Rhode Island; born in Westerly, Washington
County, R.I., August 28, 1847; attended the common schools of Westerly and Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass.; graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1869 and from Albany (N.Y.)
Law School in 1871; admitted to the bar in 1871 and commenced practice in Westerly, R.I.; United
States attorney for the district of Rhode Island 1877-1885; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonathan Chace and served from February 12
to March 3, 1885; was not a candidate for renomination; member, State senate 1885-1889; elected
as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonathan
Chace and served from April 10, 1889, to March 3, 1895; was not a candidate for reelection;
chairman, Committee on Patents (Fifty-second Congress); resumed the practice of law and engaged in
banking; died in Westerly, R.I., November 8, 1897; interment in River Bend Cemetery.